... figures point to the social position as the most con- stant factor in the causation of infant mortality. It has indeed been estimated that the rate of infant mortality among thetbnlk of the English population is folly double that which prevails among the ...

... technical training for girls, showing what serious social troubles. arose from the want of it. She traced the excessive infant mortality and a large portion of the vice, discomfort, end sickness in the homes of the working classes to the faulty and inadequate ...

... Street, St. Michael Street, and Lyng Lane, said that if many streets entirely tenanted by poor people were kept clean, infant mortality, and dis- case and filthy habits might be much lessened, and an example of order and cleanliness set before the people ...

... published infant mortality averaged 222 per 1,000, exceeding by 46 per 1,000 the pro- portion in the whole of England and Wales, and corres- ponding with that in the mining eounty of Durham. In these eighteen towns, however, infant mortality ranged from ...

... lence, 10; premature birth, 12. The fifth column repr- sented the infant mortality for the past five years, and it was to be regretted that, with the exception of 1871, the infant mortality constituted considerably more than half the total number of deaths ...

... for disposing of the sewsae of towns ? 2. M'hat are the causes, and what are the means for the p-rovf ntlon of excesive infant mortality? 3. What Is thi iL ocence on health'of the overcrowding of dwelling hcuwijo xaad workshops ? and by what means could ...

... The s average death-rate for the past ten years was 15-9 per S 1,000. During the year 131 infants under one year of age died, the annual rate of infant mortality being equal to 158 per thousand of registered births. The seven chief , zymotic diseases caused ...

... year, when the mortality was exceptionally heavy. Thiere wvas an incorease of infan- tile mortality during the year, 422, or more than half ;the deaths, being those, of children unler five years of age; whilst 72 were those of infants uiider ono year ...

... English towns the mean rate of infant mortality did not exceed 16-1 per cent. of the births, and in fifty other lar-e rcown districts the Dnrcesnae *.vas also 16-1. With regard to the constant excess of infann mortality in Hanler, he points out that the ...

... and the death-rate was an exceptionaljy low tI one-ia fact, one of the smallest ever recorded in the 51 borough. The infant mortality was proportionately a higher. but not quitu so great as in August. Deaths a from diarrhea in chi'dren were under the ...

... infirmary aria work- house, but without these it was but 20'18. Infant mortality had been large, 144 children under five, years of age having died. and no doubt the mortality in infants was to be partially attributed to the erroneous idea amongst mothers ...

... the high level of health. In 1871 there were in the borough 41 persons per acre, whereas now there were 51. Although infant mortality had to a con- siderable extent diminished, it did prevail to a needlessly large extent. Last year there were 983 deaths ...